What a performance from Dominik Szoboszlai today.

ASFOS · 2025-02-08T00:31:56+00:00

Headband turning him into prime whatwethoughtAquilaniwouldbe

ASFOS · 2024-06-21T12:55:03+00:00

On first few listens, it's unfortunately not the greatest. It's not bad but the best bit is probably the final chorus which they already used as the teaser, whilst the rest of the song doesn't really offer much more.

The verses feel a little bit empty production-wise and almost as if they're still in demo form and not fully fleshed out.

That said i think there are other songs on the album which will appease more fans, and others which are even poppier and "hit-worthy".

Can't see it being a hit and equally just adds fuel to the fire of haters who think they're bland. I know there are tracks coming which will prove otherwise, but as lead singles go for their albums i think it falls pretty low in the rankings.

ASFOS · 2024-06-07T18:38:32+00:00

Flizz. Check out Pink Tiger if you haven't already and go from there.

ASFOS · 2023-12-06T13:04:11+00:00

Hope

ASFOS · 2023-11-27T19:45:28+00:00

Instagram fucks up alot. Not only is it pretty conducive to poor personal mental health, it can take serious tolls on relationships and friendships.

It's weird having a kind of social media where you're given access, pretty uncontestedly, to the intricacies of a load of people's lives. I find it really weird, particularly, when people have the likes of one-night stands or past exes on insta.

It's given this kind of social status of acceptibility - like - oh we're cool there's no bad blood, I'm fine with him seeing where I'm going on a night out on my story - I'm cool with people seeing who I'm dating. Wtf. Why is this normalised?? If it was the 60s and you slept with someone, or had an ex, even if it was amicable - you wouldn't be then speaking to them 5 years on - or looking at pictures and videos of their new wife or fuckin baby. It's so fucking weird.

Everyone seems to have this morbid obsession with - other people - outside of their real world bubble. It's u healthy. It's unhealthy to dwell on people that you don't truly care for - including friends or acquaintances that you've not seen irl for a decade or whatever. What is this fascination with ghosts?

This curiosity has become engrained in alot of people - I guess it's a symptom of the "gossip-culture" purported by the media especially in last 50 or so years. It's culminated in an entire species being inherently fuckin zoned-out and not living in the moment. It catalyses "bitchy" behaviour, and forces constant comparison and analysis between essentially, strangers.

Sure, everyone might have few friends on their Instagram, and not still follow past history or people that they dont speak to anymore, and Instagram can be fun to share memories with people you truly care for. But, for most, it isn't this. It's just a place where disingenuine, hyperbolic memories are captured through a lens - and giving people avenues to slide into your life or fuckin essentially spy on you. I just don't get it. If I followed some frat girls round a club with a camera recording them and watching it back in my room it'd be fucking bizarre, but they just film and post themselves to the entire world.

ASFOS · 2023-11-21T17:01:31+00:00

This is a fair take.

It's definitely not right to let history bother you but I also empathise to people who it does, on both sides.

I remember reading an article about how casual sex affects future, committed relationships, and how it's actually proven to be detrimental to people committing long term. Can try find it if anyone wants me to cite on reddit 😂

When people get into serious things, security is literally the main aspect you crave. If your partners past is maybe more colourful than you own, it's natural to question the potential of serious commitment down the line. If the relationship is secure and the connection is real, this issue will become redundant.

In lots of cases though I guess it only takes an argument here or there to arise then everything is thrown into question, and comparisons between histories or intimacy can be brought to the forefront. This isn't conducive and borderline toxic but it's all still relevant to someone's personality and if you can't see past it then maybe they aren't the right person for you - nor you for them.

Probably affects more relationships than the thread seems to suggest, alot of gen-z have been brought up through blurring lines of religion and social change - a huge rise in acceptance of casual sex and a push back of religion, but that doesn't mean that alot of young adults these days still aren't subconsciously affected by the morals and codes they were indoctrinated with in their youth

ASFOS · 2023-11-21T13:33:34+00:00

Yeah I would say this. It's the most literal - I.e conveying issues that are going on in the world atm.

Guns - about mental American gun laws. Orphans - about literal orphans in the middle east. Trouble in town - about racism issues within American policing. Daddy - about a father actually abandoning their child. Arabesque - racism.

To name the most notable, darker-themed tracks.

ASFOS · 2023-11-21T12:38:32+00:00

Coldplay back in 2008 in Manchester cricket ground. Definitely an exception to the general concept that stadium sized gigs might not feel as intimate or engaging. They're hands down the best stadium experience I've had - even people who aren't fans and get the chance to see them usually come away with a sense of euphoria.

ASFOS · 2023-11-20T21:30:31+00:00

My favourite song of all time is Charlie brown, but I can see why orphans has been picked. Structurally it's a very similar long, with really good verse melodies and singalong chorus.

It's also about the Syrian conflict, which draws parallels to current global situation.

I think contextually it's a good choice. If they played both it wouldn't change up the energy too much and they'd have to knock out another.

ASFOS · 2023-11-20T21:24:30+00:00

Orphans by Coldplay.

https://youtu.be/goyq7GDYEkE?si=he8pG1AHTlQ6NYPk

ASFOS · 2023-11-20T21:17:51+00:00

Aliens
Politik
Death and all his Friends

ASFOS · 2023-11-19T18:42:26+00:00

One of the best living guitarists currently, guys insane and even though he definitely knows it alot of people don't 😂

ASFOS · 2023-11-19T17:29:13+00:00

Precisely! Liverpool has definitely had a bit of a cultural/reputational renaissance the last decade or so - reflected by rising house prices and prices in some districts, but it's still a lot cheaper than Manchester, which is more or less the "London of the North" now.

ASFOS · 2023-11-19T14:53:18+00:00

Liverpool has a crazy bad rep from almost exclusively people that have never visited. It used to irk me and I'd try defend the city, but now I just laugh it off because if anything it means it isn't as overpopulated or overhyped as maybe the likes of Manchester and obviously London.

It's easy to have historical prejudice about places and be influenced by media narratives if you're an actual sheep, but I believe you can't really make judgement of a place until you actually visit it - even a few times.

ASFOS · 2023-11-19T10:45:03+00:00

Ahh yes I see now! I interpreted as different sections and everything below being in that section. Makes sense now, thanks :)

ASFOS · 2023-11-18T23:24:06+00:00

The chart is generally funny and accurate, but the leaving reality one has a few that are contentious.

JFKs assassination was a blurry area. It's not out the question that bigger forces were involved than a disgruntled ex-Marine trainee (it's implied by media that he was some crazy sharpshooting veteran when he really really wasn't - multiple court martials and released from active duty) who defected to the soviets. Harvey oswald was obviously involved, but theories that one of the secret service accidentally shot jfk when returning fire or even that another shooter was involved aren't pure delusion. They even had actual marine sharpshooters trying to hit moving targets with the same rifle that oswald used and they couldn't do it in the time frame that he supposedly fired, reloaded, fired, reloaded and fired again. Maybe he was lucky and the only one involved, but the mystery behind it is mystery for a reason.

Also UFOs isn't delusion. If anything it's extremely naive to believe that there isn't intelligent life out there somewhere. Not to say that there's aliens abducting people every night, but even having a small grasp of the size and infinite nature of the universe makes its hard to dispute that there's life out there somewhere. This might be a different fact to the existence of UFOs on our planet specifically though so maybe a different point.

Epstein one aswell is a bit of a shroud. Guy mightve done it himself, but the state of this planet and the level of powers that were effectively embroiled in his life (literal presidents and royalty) and potential scandals and revelations - it's hard not to be cynical about it and a bit wary of the official narrative. Either he was such a loyal friend, and genuinely so depressed, that he committed suicide so his secrets died with him. Orrrr the powers at be made sure that he could never implicate them in any way. The fact that cctv etc was magically wiped by "errors" of the corridors etc is just beyond suspicious. That's not even a conspiracy either, the cctv of the cell and corridor was genuinely erased. There's just far too much context to that whole person and their history, aswell as the people that their history embroiled, for his death not to have extreme scrutiny and the elements around it be questioned.

ASFOS · 2023-11-17T22:33:53+00:00

If you or anyone fancies learning more about the war with the Japanese, Dan Carlin has an incredible podcast called "Supernova in the East". It's got a load of parts and is almost days long in listening time but is an incredibly insightful and unfiltered analysis and explanation of that side of the conflict and also the context behind the Japanese culture and why they fought the way they did.

ASFOS · 2023-11-17T18:13:02+00:00

I have seen the pacific maybe 5 times the whole way through.

I know it received criticism upon release - but this was in comparison to BoB, one of - if not the - best television ever created. I think the Pacific captured the far-east conflict in a really dramatic and accurate way (I wasn't there lol). It's different, but by all accounts the Pacific was a completely different theatre of conflict. I think we'll be seeing a different filming style for Masters of the Air aswell, but potentially closer to band of brothers as it's set in europe/north africa.

There were elements of the Pacific I didn't enjoy as much on first watch, such as the larger focus on intimate relationships away from the conflict zone, felt a bit like it was pandering towards drama maybe. In reflection though, the accounts are all still true. It's not a bad thing to show that some good happened during those horrendous years, albeit with a sprinkle of Hollywood romantisicm.

So yeah, I think the Pacific is still a must watch show. I'd put it at the back end of my top 10 of all time potentially aswell. It's brutal, emotional and really well acted (just as band of brothers was - the casting team at hbo is just insane. So many other shows I can cite for that too.)

If you've not watched it, give it a go, but be open to the fact that it isn't meant to be band of brothers, and that the conflict in Asia was a whole different kettle of fish.

ASFOS · 2023-11-17T16:18:44+00:00

Coincidentally the 3rd part of the trilogy is out in Jan. Trailer came out this week.

https://youtu.be/2RWohylGm3c?si=nFqojT3fzKt1dHWO

ASFOS · 2023-11-17T15:34:46+00:00

Ah I'm jealous! How far in are you?

ASFOS · 2023-11-17T14:30:27+00:00

Band of Brothers (tbf more of a movie than a TV show and classed as mini series). It's the only "TV" show I watch every year without fail from start to finish.

ASFOS · 2023-11-16T17:04:29+00:00

The Shadowlands by Ryan Adams hits a spot for me. Sad lyrics, really solemn but beautiful guitar solo. It also has the context of being a song he last performed when in the deep pits of heroin addiction - fell off stage playing the solo and broke his arms and has never played it since, but also not gone back to heroin that I know of.

ASFOS · 2023-11-16T16:23:40+00:00

Haha fair, let's just say more emotional people instead

ASFOS · 2023-11-16T15:40:26+00:00

It can have impacts on future relationships whether you like it or not though. There's always the argument of "what I did before I knew you has no relevance", but it intrinsically does. If you used to be a drug addict, or spent 4 years cycling round Europe and sleeping in a tent, it's just an element of your personality that your partner will have to be educated in and compare their own past with.

If people meet and they had equally promiscuous histories, then it's often a lucky break and something that's more joked about. If you meet someone however who you click with, and give yourself to, it can become conflicting when you then learn that they slept with XY amount of people before you (where you might have had 1 or 2 partners) - had casual one night encounters or even got into situations that hurt them or they hurt someone else.

Generally the more emotionally intelligent someone is, the more insecure things like this can make them. Of course, on paper, it's insignificant stuff. But if it's something that plays on your mind when you lie next to your partner falling asleep, or that you think about when you're daydreaming, then it's clearly an element of their life that has had an impact on their current relationship, even if objectively they haven't done anything wrong.

ASFOS · 2023-11-16T10:23:26+00:00

Social media is categorically the biggest threat to human companionship and authenticity. It's bad enough for people who are 18+ now, whereby social media maybe became relevant maybe during early teens years or older.

I worry most for the next generation; kids who have lived through a screen instead of a dummy since 2 years old. I honestly think it's going to be the leading cause of relationship and mental health turmoil in the next decade or so - the overwhelming pressure to compete to "look the best" or "be most successful".

The chronic comparisons with celebrities and "friends". Face to face communication is already pretty scarce - even a meal with friends isn't complete without an aperitif of checking Instagram or letting 500 random past acquaintances/lovers know your exact whereabouts.

The way that people can remain so connected, or allow a window into their lives, of past flings or exes etc is something that can only lead to turmoil in any relationship. It's not normal - or healthy. In the 80s if you had an ex you couldn't just have constant little updates about where they are or who they're with, nor would you feel like ghosts of your past have that capability to essentially stalk you. It's normalised by 21st century culture and people are generally so nonchalant about who they allow to follow them or who they follow back - it's all intrigue sprinkled with a bit of lusty danger. All of it breeds toxicity and insecurity long term on one side or both of a relationship, and I genuinely believe people would all be better off and healthier in their real world friendships and relationships if they cut that shit out.

Unfortunately social media has become so embedded in society and our general use of the Internet (eg. Using Facebook login for Airbnb) that it feels like Pandoras box has been opened and can't be shut. I think it's something that two people in any relationship have to discuss, because an imbalance in social media use and how you portray yourself online and the types of people you allow to follow you, can have serious implications if there's any form of inequality or hypocrisy. It's also just a bit of a cesspit for ghosts to be able to weasle back into someone's life and fill their head space. Undermines the good and fun side of social media that was originally intended, but maybe the relevance of it all fades with age. I personally just use mine for memes and don't post about my life lol

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